Douglas Chiang (Earth and Beyond Online) Interview at E&B Portal

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By IGN Staff

There's an interview with Douglas Chiang at Earth And Beyond Portal, asking plenty of questions about his work consulting on the "look" of Earth and Beyond Online. However, Douglas was also the Art Director for Star Wars: Episode One, so plenty of questions deal with that film as well:

On a film project, like Star Wars, I will come in and assemble a team, and each of the team members will have a very specific skill. Some will be great at costume design, some at feature design. I try to tap into all those different talents and guide them. Of course, the team that¿s being developed is still be driven by the film director, whether it¿s George or somebody else.

The same process happened here on Earth and Beyond where it was essentially the directors, Jerry and Gary and those guys, and my goal was to be that team as a single person. So much of that work had already been done. There was only one very specific task left, and that was the space ships.

Earth and Beyond Online is being developed by Westwood Studios, a division of Electronic Arts. The space sim/RPG is currently in a beta phase. - Pipeline